What was Virgil's main source of inspiration for the Aeneid?
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Plato's Republic
Aristotle's Poetics
Answer
Virgil was heavily influenced by the works of the Greek poet Homer, particularly the Iliad and the Odyssey, when writing the Aeneid. The epic poem shares many themes and narrative structures with these earlier works.
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